The
Rabbis Of The Devil: Extremist Jewish Graffiti - "Gas the
Arabs .. JDL"
27 January 2011By Khalid
Amayreh
Imagine, just imagine, the outcry
that would follow an imagined call by a European
Muslim or Christian religious leader suggesting
sending hundreds of thousands of Jews to
concentration camps. The Sheikh
or priest or bishop would be lambasted beyond
imagination, and his denomination or church would
immediately distance itself from his foolish remarks.
Political authorities would also
declare that Nazi-minded Sheikh or bishop has no place
in modern Europe and that governments would nip the
hateful and racist elements in the bud. In short, he
would be looked upon as a pariah, to say the very
least. He even might be forced to commit suicide under
public pressure.
As to Jewish circles, their protests would be clarion
and omnipresent.
But how would things look like if such a call took
place in
Israel and was made by a popular
rabbi, with hundreds of thousands of followers?
According to a weekly Hebrew magazine, several rabbis,
including the rabbi of Safad,
Shmuel
Eliyahu, recently proposed the
establishment of death camps for the Palestinians.
The magazine indicated that the creation of these
camps would be the duty of all devout Jews.
The Yedeot Ahronot's YNet on Saturday, 15 January
quoted the rabbis as stating that the
Torah
requires Jews to wipe out any trace of the so-called
Amalek in Palestine . Many religious Jews refer
to their perceived or real enemies as Amalek.
The YNet quoted Jewish intellectual Audi Aloni as
saying that calls for the extermination of
Palestinians are openly made in the synagogues
as the genocidal idea has become a practical option.
"No one objected to Rabbi
Shmuel Eliyahu,
chief rabbi
of Safad and
Rabbi
Shlomo Aviner, Chief Rabbi of
Beit El, who undersigned the advisory opinion, which
suggested approval for their opinion."
I realize that these evil men don't represent Jews
everywhere, nor do they even represent the entire
rabbinic community. There are many esteemed rabbis who
reject outright the satanic mindset permeating through
the landscape of the sick minds of people like Elyahu,
his cohorts and evil colleagues.
The Torah, after all, was supposed to be a light upon
humanity. But when it becomes, thanks to those rabbis
of Satan, a tool for genocide, there is obviously a
huge catch-22 hanging over Judaism's conscience.
Again, the fact that these nefarious rabbis don't
represent the entirety of Judaism is no guarantee that
their damage will be limited. A fool man's fire could
frustrate a thousand wise men who wouldn't know how to
put it off.
Isn't this the way the holocaust started? It didn't
start with concentration camps, or even with
Kristalnacht. Such death camps as Auschwitz ,
Treblinka, Mauthauzen and
Bergen Belsen became only known
much later.
The purpose of this small piece is not to vilify or
demonize Jews. Nor am I particularly enthusiastic
about hurling Nazi epithets at Jews. However, nothing
should be further from truth.
The call for sending millions of Palestinians to
concentration camps means that a sizeable segment of
the Israeli Jewish society is capable, at least
mentally, of embarking on the unthinkable. It means
that a real Jewish holocaust against the
Palestinian people
is not outside the realm of imagination.
This matter is well known, even known too well for us
who live in this part of the world. After all, Israel
demonstrated two years ago, during its Nazi-like
onslaught on the
Gaza
Strip, that it could do the
unthinkable.
And that was not the first time Israel behaved
manifestly nefariously. In 2006, during the Israeli
aggression on
Lebanon
, the
Israeli air force
dropped more than 2,000,000 cluster bomblets on South
Lebanon civilian areas, arguably enough to kill or
maim at least 2 million Lebanese children.
The scant media coverage of the latest diabolic
statements by the rabbis of evil in no way lessens
their gravity and seriousness. After all, these are
not marginal or isolated figures in society.
In fact, paying not sufficient attention to this
phenomenon is tantamount to encouraging it. If Germans
and others had not kept silence in the late 1920s and
early 1930s, many things wouldn't have occurred.
I would want to be cautious drawing historical analogy
between every thing happening in Israel today and
everything that happened in Europe several decades
ago. However, there are certain parallels that
shouldn't escape our attention, and the latest
outrageous statements by these diabolical rabbis are
one of them.
Let no one say that words are innocuous and can't
kill; nay, words can kill and do kill. A few years
ago, a Jewish immigrant from France decapitated a
Palestinian cabby from
East
Jerusalem after the taxi-driver
gave the killer a ride to his home north of
Tel Aviv.
And when the murderer was eventually arrested and
interrogated by the police, he said he heard his
neighborhood synagogue rabbi say that the lives of
non-Jews had no sanctity.
More to the point, it is abundantly clear that
thousands of Israeli soldiers would rather heed and
obey their respective rabbis' homilies than their army
superiors' instructions when it comes to treating
Palestinians. This fact was revealed during the
Israeli onslaught on
Gaza
two years ago when Israeli soldiers knowingly and
deliberately murdered innocent civilians, including
children, by the hundreds.
But this is not the time for demonization; it is
rather the time for action. Jewish leaders of all
orientations should speak up as strongly as possible
against those who are besmirching the good name of
their religion.
The likes of Shmuel Eliyahu must be told that there is
no place in Judaism for those who advocate genocide
for non-Jews. In the final analysis, when Jews or
anybody else think or behave or act like the Nazis
acted, they simply become Nazis themselves.
Finally, Jews shouldn't keep silent in the face of
these abominations just because the media and public
opinion in the West are more or less keeping silent.
Well, since when a moral stance was decided by other
people's apathy or silence? In fact, the immoral
silence of much of the west toward what is happening
in Israel these days is bad and dangerous for Jews and
their future.
Anything that causes moral desensitization to occur is
definitely bad. This is to put it extremely mildly.
Khalid Amayreh is a journalist living
in Palestine. He obtained his MA in journalism from
the University of Southern Illinois in 1983. Since the
1990s, Mr. Amayreh has been working and writing for
several news outlets among which is Aljazeera.net, Al-Ahram
Weekly, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), and
Middle East International. This articles and several
writings of Mr. Amayreh available at The Palestinian
Information Center via
https://english.palinfo.com
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